Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751370AbVJFVM3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 17:12:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751371AbVJFVM2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 17:12:28 -0400 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]:43227 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751370AbVJFVM1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 17:12:27 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC] atomic create+open From: Trond Myklebust To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <1128616864.8396.32.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <1128619526.16534.8.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <1128620528.16534.26.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <1128623899.31797.14.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <1128626258.31797.34.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 17:12:18 -0400 Message-Id: <1128633138.31797.52.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-3.886, required 12, autolearn=disabled, AWL 1.11, UIO_MAIL_IS_INTERNAL -5.00) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 581 Lines: 16 to den 06.10.2005 Klokka 22:17 (+0200) skreiv Miklos Szeredi: > I just think that filesystem code should _never_ need to care about > mounts. If you want to do the lookup+open, you somehow will have to > deal with mounts, which is ugly. You appear to think that atomic lookup+open is a question of choice. It is not. Cheers, Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/